Landscape in Ecuador
Artist
Louis Rémy Mignot
American, 1831–1870, active in Great Britain and France 1862–1870
Date1859
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions24 x 39 1/2 in. (61 x 100.3 cm)
Frame: 34 3/4 x 49 7/8 in. (88.3 x 126.7 cm)
Frame: 34 3/4 x 49 7/8 in. (88.3 x 126.7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from gifts by the American Credit Corporation in memory of Guy T. Carswell, and various donors, by exchange
Object number91.2
On View
On view[1] Stuyvesant provenance provided by Brown-Corbin, apparently confirmed by inscription on frame.
[2] As Tropical Panorama.
Published ReferencesSteven Litt, "Art museum buys two works; donors give five more." The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC) (January 10, 1991), 4B.
"Annual Report: Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview, (Winter 1991-92), illus. (b-w) 42.
Katherine E. Manthorne, "Louis Mignot's Landscape in Ecuador," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Spring 1992), 15-18, illus.(b-w) 15.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 233.
Katherine E. Manthorne, "On the Road: Louis Rémy Mignot's Landscape in Ecuador," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 16 (1993), 14-30, illus. (color) fig. 1.
John W. Coffey and Katherine Manthorne, "Louis Rémy Mignot, Rediscovered," American Art Review 5 (Fall 1993), 92-93, 159, illus. (color) 93.
Kevin J. Avery, Church's Great Picture, The Heart of the Andes (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993), unnumbered in cat., noted 49, illus. (b-w) fig. 32.
John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed, 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the South (New York: Doubleday, 1996), illus. (detail, b-w) 224.
Katherine E. Manthorne with John W. Coffey, The Landscapes of Louis Rémy Mignot: A Southern Painter Abroad (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996), no. 43, discussed 72-77, illus. (color) opp. title page & 74.
"The Rediscovery of a Southern Painter," NCMA supplement to the Durham, NC Herald-Sun (October1996), 6-7, illus. (color) 6, (detail, color) 1.
Chuck Twardy, "Landscapes and Limelight," The News & Observer (October 20, 1996), 1G, 7G
Kate Dobbs Ariail, "Mastery Rediscovered," The Independent Weekly (Durham, NC) (October 23, 1996), 27, illus. (b-w).
Max Halperen, "Around the World with Louis Rémy Mignot," Spectator (Raleigh, NC) (October 24, 1996), 9-10, illus. (b-w) 9.
John W. Coffey, "Louis Rémy Mignot," Antiques 150 (November 1996), 696-707, discussed 700, illus. Pl. III.
M. Stephen Doherty, "Learning from a Forgotten Master," American Artist 61 (February 1997), 42-45, illus. (color) 42-43.
William Grimes, "A Landscape Master Lost in the Shadows," New York Times (February 9, 1997), H41-42, illus. (b-w) H41.
"A Rediscovery: Hudson River Painter Louis Rémy Mignot," The Academy Bulletin (National Academy of Design, New York) 13 (Spring 1997), illus. (b-w) 1.
Peter H. Wood, review of Mignot book and exhibition, Southern Cultures 3 (1996), 68-74, illus. (b-w) 70.
John W. Coffey, entry for Landscape in Ecuador, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 200, illus. (color).
World Views: How Artists See the Earth, Newspapers in Education (supplement to the Raleigh News & Observer) (no date), 11, illus. (b-w) 11, illus. (color) 8.
Art Taylor, "Flora, Fauna and Fine Art," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview and Calendar of Events (Sept/Oct 2001), mentioned 12.
American Art (auction catalogue), Philips: New York, May 21, 2002, mentioned 58-59, illus. (color) 58.
"Highlights Include Kids' Favorites," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (September/October 2003), mentioned 7.
John W. Coffey, entry for Landscape in Ecuador, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 416, illus. (color) 417.
Stuart T. Robinson, "Essences of Charleston: The Tropical Landscape Paintings of Louis Remy Mignot, 1857–1859," MA Thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2010, illus. (color) 65, fig. 34.
Connecting the World: The Panama Canal at 100 (exhibition catalogue) (Charlotte: Mint Museum of Art, 2014), illus. (color) 57, pl. 6.
James Oakes, Michael E. McGerr, Jan Lewis, Of the People: A History of the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), illus.Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Church's Great Picture, The Heart of the Andes," October 5, 1993-January 2, 1994, unnumbered in cat., noted p. 49, illus. (b-w) fig. 32.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Louis Rémy Mignot: A Southern Painter Abroad," October 20, 1996-January 5, 1997; New York, NY, National Academy of Design, February 20-May 11, 1997, cat. no. 43.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Art for the People: Recent Museum Acquisitions," September 14, 1997-January 4, 1998. (Closing date extended to January 25, 1998)
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Highlights of the American Collection, February 15-August 2, 2009.
Palm Beach, FL, Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, "New World Eden: Artist-Explorers in the American Tropics," January 26-April 18, 2010.
Charlotte, NC, The Mint Museum, “Connecting the World: The Panama Canal at 100,” November 1, 2014–February 1, 2015, illus. (color) 57, pl. 6.
Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Museum, “Time Travels in Nineteenth-Century Landscapes,” February 24–April 3, 2016.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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